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020 _a9780521857390 (hbk.) :
_c60.00 GBP
100 1 _aBARANOWSKI Shelley
245 _aNazi empire :
_bGerman colonialism and imperialism from Bismarck to Hitler /
_cShelley Baranowski.
260 _aCambridge ; New York :
_bCambridge Univ Press,
_c2011.
300 _axii, 368 pages : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _a"Drawing on recent studies of the links between empire, colonialism, and genocide, Nazi Empire: German Imperialism and Colonialism from Bismarck to Hitler examines German history from 1871 to 1945 as an expression of the aspiration to imperialist expansion and the simultaneous fear of destruction by rivals. Acknowledging the important differences among the Second Empire, the Weimar Republic, and the Third Reich, Shelley Baranowski nonetheless reveals a common thread: the drama of German imperialist ambitions that embraced ethnic homogeneity over diversity, imperial enlargement over stasis, and "living space" as the route to the biological survival of the German Volk "--
650 _aGERMANY
_xCOLONIES
_xHISTORY
650 _aGERMANY
_xTERRITORIAL EXPANSION
_xHISTORY
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